Incredibly excited to announce that I’m starting my own research group at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Gießen as part of the excellence cluster “The Adaptive Mind”! 🥳 I'm looking to fill the first PhD position. If you’re interested, apply here: tinyurl.com/38p3h22p Please spread the word! 🙏

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🚨Now out in Science Advances @science.org: #Parkinson's patients off dopamine medication (PD-) explore too much and exploit too little. Modeling shows they overvalue uncertainty, not that they choose randomly. On levodopa (PD+) they become comparable to controls www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵👇

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🎓Congratulations Dr. @hanqizhou.bsky.social on successfully defending her thesis with the highest distinctions (summa cum laude)! It's been an honour and a privilege working together over the past years, and you've reshaped how I understand cognition via your creative and bold ideas. Bravo! 👏🥳

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If you're going to Cogsci, you should check out this workshop being organized by @davidnagy.bsky.social and @hanqizhou.bsky.social from hmc-lab.com, together with an all-star cast of co-organizers and speakers. I'll be heading there straight from teaching at @bamb-school.bsky.social

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New preprint! How do threat beliefs drive avoidance & what happens when avoidance prevents us from verifying them? New work showing a bidirectional link between beliefs and avoidance! Lucky to work w @ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social @tobywise.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

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